If these are from a VAX, could they be microcode disks for a 11/780? There was a RX01 attached via a LSI-11 as console.
Or they could just be disks used for data exchange. They would be in another DEC OS file format, rather than ODS2. Jerry Weiss j...@ieee.org > On May 4, 2017, at 4:41 PM, Terry Stewart via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Just tying up some unfinished business. Right at the beginning of this > thread I said... > >> Guys in the building next door to me (a Science lab) have found some 8 > inch floppy disks. >> They want to see what’s on them, or at least to archive them. >> They have no idea what machine these disks were used with, or the software > was used to write the files. >> They may be CP/M, or some other format entirely. > > Now that I've got the 8 inch disk drive up and running and have some > experience with it, I thought I've give these disks a go. > > It turns out these disks are from a VAX machine. Assuming the OS is VMS, I > scoured the Internet for something that might read them. > > …... > Any comments most welcome. > > Thanks! > > Terry
